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The Apple App Store is internationally down. This is because pre-orders start today, but according to Apple only in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Why is it internationally down then? The iPhone 4 is set to be released in 18 additional countries in July, 2010.


Opera Mini was today submitted to Apple’s App Store. The software was announced at Mobile World Congress 2010 in February. Opera Software claims that their browser will perform up to six times faster than Safari.

Check out the full press release and video after the break.


Apple has quietly raised the app download limit over 3G to 20MB. According to 9to5mac this update has hit at least Germany and Canada, and I can confirm that it is also 20MB here in Finland. So I guess we could call it global.


A gameplay video of the recently released Doom II RPG for the iPhone. The game is available in the App Store for 2.99€.

Check out the video after the break.


According to analyst firm Gartner, Apple is totally dominating app sales. They account for 99.4% of the money made with mobile apps. In year 2009, they sold 2.5 billion apps, and $4.2 billion in app revenue.

In other words, all the other app stores account for only .6% of application purchases.

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It has only been 98 days, since Apple announced that their App Store had hit 2 billion downloads. Today, it hit three billion downloads. 1 billion downloads in 98 days, means that they are selling 350 apps each second, and 10 million apps a day. According to appshopper website, there are now 128,302 apps in the App Store.

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Tap Tap Revenge 3 is now free in the Apple App Store. Get it while it’s hot!


Apple is today rolling out an update to its iTunes App Store. The update will bring the individual apps to match the layout of iTunes 9, that was updated a few months ago. An individual page now shows only the two first lines of an app’s description, making it much more important for the developer to focus on these. The user is still able to hit a …More button to see the full description. Also the application icon is much bigger, multiple screen shots of the application will be shown and other applications by the same developer will be shown automatically.

And those of you who only need the U.S. maps of TomTom, head over to the app store before December 28th to get the application for $49.

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